English has been the dominant global language for a century, but is it the language of the future? If Mandarin Chinese is to challenge English globally, then it first has to conquer its own backyard, ...

Mandarin, China’s official tongue, is also the top language worldwide for business other than English, according to Bloomberg Rankings. Mandarin, spoken by 845 million people, scored highest in a ...

A new study examined how native New Zealand English speakers perceive six Mandarin Chinese vowels, revealing specific cross-language mappings and asymmetries predicted by established phonetic models.

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts Mandarin and Arabic often ...